Commit 093749e2 authored by Chao Yu's avatar Chao Yu Committed by Jaegeuk Kim
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f2fs: support age threshold based garbage collection

There are several issues in current background GC algorithm:
- valid blocks is one of key factors during cost overhead calculation,
so if segment has less valid block, however even its age is young or
it locates hot segment, CB algorithm will still choose the segment as
victim, it's not appropriate.
- GCed data/node will go to existing logs, no matter in-there datas'
update frequency is the same or not, it may mix hot and cold data
again.
- GC alloctor mainly use LFS type segment, it will cost free segment
more quickly.

This patch introduces a new algorithm named age threshold based
garbage collection to solve above issues, there are three steps
mainly:

1. select a source victim:
- set an age threshold, and select candidates beased threshold:
e.g.
 0 means youngest, 100 means oldest, if we set age threshold to 80
 then select dirty segments which has age in range of [80, 100] as
 candiddates;
- set candidate_ratio threshold, and select candidates base...
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